New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 42A - LIFE-THREATENING EMERGENCIES
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 10:42A-1.3 - Definitions
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning defined herein:
"Assistant Commissioner" means the Assistant Commissioner of the Division of Developmental Disabilities.
"Chief executive officer" (CEO) means the person having administrative authority over, and responsibility for, a State-operated developmental center or private licensed facility for the developmentally disabled under N.J.A.C, 10:47, Standards for Private Licensed Facilities for Persons with Developmental Disabilities.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Human Services.
"Contested matter" means an adversarial proceeding, including any licensing proceeding, in which the legal rights, duties, obligations, privileges, benefits, or other legal relations of specific parties are required by constitutional right or by statute to be determined by an agency by decisions, determinations, or orders, addressed to them or disposing of their interests, after opportunity for an agency hearing. (N.J.S.A. 52:14B-2; N.J.A.C. 1:1)
"Contract employee" means a person who works directly with persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury and is under contract with the Department of Human Services or is an employee of a private agency that is under contract with the Department of Human Services.
"Department" means the Department of Human Services.
"Division" means the Division of Developmental Disabilities.
"Do Not Resuscitate Order" or "DNR Order" means a physician's written order not to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a hospital or out-of-hospital situation in the event the person suffers cardiac or respiratory arrest.
"Executive director" means the individual with administrative authority over a residential program licensed in accordance with N.J.A.C. 10:44A, Standards for Community Residences for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, N.J.A.C. 10:44C, Standards for Community Residences for Persons with Head Injuries, and N.J.A.C. 10:47, Standards for Private Licensed Facilities for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, or agency under contract with or regulated by the Division.
"Facility" means a facility for persons with developmental disabilities or a facility for persons with traumatic brain injury.
"Facility for persons with developmental disabilities" means a facility operated by the Division including developmental centers, under contract with the Division or licensed under N.J.A.C. 10:44A, Standards for Community Residences for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities N.J.A.C. 10:44B, Standards for Community Residences for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (Community Care Residences), or N.J.A.C. 10:47, Standards for Private Licensed Facilities for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, or program under contract with or regulated by the Division.
"Facility for persons with traumatic brain injury" means a facility for persons with traumatic brain injury that is licensed under N.J.A.C. 10:44C, Standards for Community Residences for Persons with Head Injuries, or under contract with the Department.
"Life-threatening emergency" means a situation in which a prudent person could reasonably believe that immediate intervention is necessary to protect the life of a person receiving services at a facility for persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury or to protect the lives of other persons at the facility or agency, from an immediate threat or actual occurrence of a potentially fatal injury, impairment to bodily functions, or dysfunction of a bodily organ or part.
"Medical professional" means a physician, physician's assistant, advanced practice nurse or registered nurse.
"911 call" means a telephone call to the emergency 911 system.
"Office of Administrative Law" (OAL) means an independent unit assigned to the Department of Treasury, which has the authority to hear contested matters.
"Practitioner's Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST)" means a form of standardized medical order signed by a physician or advanced practice nurse that comports with New Jersey State laws and rules.
"Staff" means any licensee and any full time, part time, temporary employment services or contract employee at a facility for persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury present in the living or program area who work directly with the person served. For the purpose of this rule, this term does not include housekeepers, food service workers, maintenance workers, clerical staff or volunteers.
"Under contract" means a provider under a written agreement with the Division or a provider approved by the Division to provide disability services to individuals who are eligible to receive services from the Division.
